The Sun. — London, England, 1864-12-26 00:00:00

AND lOMMEROIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, Two O'CLOCK. ERITISTI FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES. FRIDAY. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. Per Cent. Consols I Do Account, Jan. 10 .... 0 per Cent. Reduced BS „„'lev , 3 per Cent. BBl hew 2 per Cent. Jan. 1894 Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan., 1880 — Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — „ Do (Red Sea Telegr a ph), A ug . 1908 — Elt:thequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4;per Cent. par 3pm Do £5OO Do £lOO and £2OO .. — o .nk England Stk, 52 per,Ct. o Account — , • NDI &N GOVERNME N T S ECURITIES . Latins Stock, 10f per Cent., April 1874 Shut Do Account Do 5 per Cent. July, 1870 DJ Account . DJ 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888.... — Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872.... b ,. — Do 51 per Cent., May, 1879 — Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 b 0 bonds 1,1,UW De under £1,000.. A, natriaFOßEßonds,lGN 5 per FU Cent NDS—CLOSING PRICES. n B razilian 5 per Cent Do 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 „ Do 1863 B3/ 'tienos Ayres 6 per Cent Do Account.... Obilian 6 per Cent. 2 01 0tubian 6 per Cent — "nba, 6 per Cent. - Dos per Cent, 1864 Dauish 3 per Cent. 9 1825 Do 5 per Cent, 1864 ~, Do 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid — Pm "quador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — , Do, Provisonal Land Warrant.. 4Yptian 7 per Cent 951 6 Lo, Second Issue Do £lOO Bonds Do 1864 . . 944 5 „ Do Scrip, £l5 paid 4 1 p m kwreek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — Do Account L o Coupons r ., Do Account — q Uatemala 5 per CB , Z t alian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway, ttexican 3 per Cent Do Account Do 1864 Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — die Do Scrip, £53 paid bo French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — die x d koorish Imperial 5 per Cent Nei, Granada — Do 2 per Cent. Do Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Do Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861 — Do do Aug., 1866 — 4-, ruvian 41 per Cent .. Do 3 per Cent. (Crribarren).. L 0 4} per Cent., 1862 1 , Do Account.... °ltuguese 3 per Cent., 185 - 3 Do Account — Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 — ,D 0 A ccount .. 481 71 ‘assian 6 per Cent 1822, £ St. Do 41 per Cent., 1850 B7l 7 D e 1860 Do 3 o Der Cent 1859 — D 5 p er Cent, 1862 Do P 1364 B3l k bo Scrip, £65 paid ' 4 rdinian 6 per Cent Do Account S panish 3 per Cent ....... . — Do Account bo New Deferred Do Account ,Do Passive 00 Account 321 1 1 vanish Cert. of Coup not funded — Do 1 O'edish, Account 4 per Cent. l4l 14 ` u titish 6 per Cent. 1854 Do Account bo 6 per Cent..lBsB ,Do Account 7Ol 1 1 ,0 £lOO Bonds Do 6 p er C ent . 1862 0 Account . . 721 ± D£loo Bonds.. 00 6 per Cent. 1863 t, D er Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. ',..ilezuela 3 per Cent. Do Account — - o 6 per Cent., 1862 Account 521 D o p Cent., 1864 .. 441 1 4 uo 11 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in London I I II strian 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins. b ei gian l ' "/ per Cent., Ex. 25f — 4 ,tch 21 per Cent. Ex. 12 Gail — tV 4 per Cent. Certificates e i n•oh Rentes, 3 per Cent I „tiati, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ez.25 francs.. A "0 Account qi'll.vian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 4s. e ctrtiontese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f — THREE O'CLOCK. Paolo, Money. u o Acootizt B9l DISPUTE ON A SALE OF CLOTH.—Iff the Manches• County Court, on Friday, Messrs Spensley and t cton, yarn and cloth agents, brought an action against assr s M. B. Naggir and Co., Greek merchants, Both I n ! Parties c a r r y o n b us i ness i n thi s c ity. M r L eresc h e , l i wr the plaintiffs, said that previous to August his clients 14 4 on e ox two transactions with the defendants, who in 4: t t Month gave an order for 125 pieces of cloth. The tladants were not satisfied with the performance of the 47itract, alleging that the goods were not according to tcl Ple. On one of the plaintiffs going to the d e f en d an t s ' Wa rehou se , he was shown a sample c,f cloth which had been t4 tb 44ll factured for them (the plaintiffs), and he learned that Les defendants had received it from a Mr Georgiadi, who 'it'd obtained it from the plaintiffs' porter in the abs ence o f til.raasters. It was alleged that the defendants understood 111 cloth to be a sample of the 125 pieces. It was agreed the b4latiffs should take back these goods and supply others ap i,(ll'ecl of by defendants at id per pound additional. Whil e 4 14 arrangement was proceeding (on the 13th August) Mr ` l R'Riar, one of the defendants, called at the plaintiffs' pilltehouse, and there saw five pieces of nine pound long- O /i I L The plaintiffs said they had a quantity of the same ti t i t i i and the defendant ultimately a gree d t o p urc h ase 500 k kt ea at 2s 7.1 d per pound. After the delivery the defend- Complained that there were only 36 pieces equal to L I/I pts, and said it was their intention to return the remain. 4 1 °. Pisces, which they stated were rough, contained broken 8, and were not so good as those supplied by the plain , . 1 , 11 1 4 a transaction twelve months previous to that time. laple pieces were produced, and Mr Spensley said that b elievedth 46i "rejects" were more regular in the kt b efore than the sample pieces. Mr Naggiar saw them t j'fore giving the order. There might be slight differences tkil' picks, k but the cloth was substantially of the same It b ,. Y. Other evidence was produced s h ow i ng th a t th ere ki4e Variations in the cloth, but only such as were usual in t% t ge quantity, and that it was the custom, wh ere th e clif f:lee was great, for the goods to be exchanged, or an al }4lace made upon them. Mr Higgin, for the d e f en d ants , V t 'inded that the cloth was not equal to the sample seen r Nee. iar. He had an examination mad e , an d h e 4 1 ILL g • ,: 4 Mr M. B. Naggiar, who said that the plaintiff s t o ld I k 7 that they had 1,000 pieces of the quality sold by them He purchased 500, and when they were being de- L:led h e took a piece out of the first bundle and found it to the sample shown by Mr Spensley. On comparing l tb 4 Piece with the rest,it was seen that only 36 pieces of the to,treaponded, The plaintiffs refused to take back the 14" , alleging that the defendants had bought from the bulk 11, 4 1101 ; from sample. The def en d ants ' ware h ouseman sa id ti t) , he applied to the plaintiffs f ur an a ll owance, w hi c h th e y N,*d to make. He had examined the five original sample OE' 4_ 4 and had found them to differ in pi c k s . O t h er ev id ence laj rr oboration was given, and the judgo (Mr E, Ovens) that th ere was not distinct prod that the defendants iiitg6B?.t from the sample with which th e d e f endants corn- Pie goods on delivery : He gave judgment for the Ilk t iffs for the amount claimed, .£O9O, subject to a redue 111004Pon a certificate being given by a gentle man agreed Ne te t oclUrt, as to what allowance should be made for such as he might consider "rejects," gCOLLEGE.—Tbe prizes f or pro . km ap e in in physical science, now given half'.yearly by Lord k.; at ld Sale, wore last week adjudged, the senior p r i ze t o by reYlnour Forster (scholar), and the junior to J. Robin -4 r,‘ e°4ll tooner). The examination was conducted by Mr. 4 'l;ir r itath, M.A., D epu t y P ro f es sor of Exp e ri men t s , kli b ° ,:°Phy in the University of Oxford. The other prizes 1 4 1 % getatly given by Lord Says Eitel Sele to the number kip t i each -) ear) tor cla s sic a l attainment and general kl to4o zlUct were at the same time awarded to the success YIS is the various parts of the school, 40NEY ISAaKET The Stock, Mining, and Royal Exchanges have been entirely closed to-day. All the other public end private establishments, banking alone excepted, have also been shut, and a general holiday has been Observed in the City. There was a large withdrawal of gold from the tank of England on Saturday, amounting to £lO2 000 for ii,exandcia. The advices from the manufacturing districts for the past week are in most instances satisfactory. At Manchesfer both cloths and yarns have fully oupported previous rates ; active operations have been restricted as usual at this season of the year. The woolen trade of Leeds, Bradford, and Hudders field, has continued steady, without any material Chan ge in prices, while at Birmingham, Sheffield, and 'Wolverhampton, there has been a more buoyant tone in most departments. TS, Railways. Paid. Closing Price. 3.14. Wal., and Str. st , I!yttie and Tyne. t Bristol and Exeter "laledoman -„ 50 Corr. and Bandon 20 dornwall 10 Do A 10 Do. B A -'eta no till6pc.pan.has ai to B. 50 Dublin tz Belfast d June. 26 Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Juno. at Edinburgh & Glasgow. at Glasg. and S. Western. at Great Eastern, Ord. atk at Ditto A stock at Ditto East Anglian st st GreatNorthof Scotland' at Great Northern at Do A stook at Do B do at Gt. S. and W. of Irelanili st Great Western,Original at Do Str Val gua. stock' at Do. South Wales •-tt Do. West Mid. -Oxford Do Newport' at Do Hereford at , Lancashire & Yorkshire! at 'London and Blaokwall; at Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast' et Lon., Chat., and Dover. at Lon. & North Western' at Lon. & Scr.th Western! et Man., Shef., & Linooln.l 50 Maryport and Carlisle.l 12 Dot shares.. at Metropolitan st Midland at Do Birming. & Derby 50 llid. Gt. W. of Ireland 25 Do. shares 45 Mid Ker t at North British at Edin., Perth, & DundeeF at Nth. Eastern—Berwick 26 Do, G.N.E. purohaise ; at Do Leeds st Do York at Do Car1i51e........., 36 Do. Stock. & Darling. 16 Do do 1855-58 15 Do do 1t4 , K,..01 at North London I 1 10 Do New ...... [0 Do New, 1861 st 'North Staffbrdshire 10 N. and S. W. Junotion st /Scottish Central st Soot. N. E., Aber. stock st • Do Soot. Mid. stook 10 Shrews. and Welohpool st Shropshire Union st South Devon • •i South Eastegn ?0 statues, Wok.,andWok. l st faff Vale.. 10 I Do C at Vale of Neath at Waterford Kilkennyi 100 at , West Cornwall lOO st IW. Hartlepool ilar.&R lOO ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. 89 1316 471 8 ; 74 114 51 1551 (3 7983 116 i 834 105 6 5 1 97 201 a 1 20; 64a 4 I 13911 114 13} 14, 72 1041 I 'hare , = 87 -6O 131 132 6 7 34 36 16 17 8) 91 106 108 474 481 7i 81 131 133 153 157 130 132 89 91 79 79a 67 59 58 60 44 46 100 102 1161 117 83 84 105 tO6 38 40 120 12 97 98 64 65 121 122 1391 140 109 111 155 66 25¢ 461 114 114, 74 74 104 104: 37& 88i 11 12p 9 10 1 . 120 125 1i 2 p 1 1i 79 130 10f 11i 138 142 58 6) 44 46 86 31 8 9 163 168 34 4i p IC9 111 38 40 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Itailwaye 100 kt 'antic &St La.wrcnc, s). om.,Barodact.Coat In. Gu. 5 per oent... 20 Do. E. Uj timialo and Laxe uuron 10 Do. Preference alo,Brant,&G o d r i c l 100 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 137 100 00. do. July 1, 187 ,00 Do. do. June 1.1.5: leutra.ezS. Eastn. (L • nt 'apeTown & Dock .`of , 100 Demerara 7 P.O. per. pf itec k .i.astn. Bengal gu. y p. stook i.ast Indian. frti. 5 p. c 2 0 Do. do. J Ext mock Grand Trims 01 (;anr..l, 1 0 Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge ti per cent 100 Do. Ist ire!. Bonds 100 Do. do. deterred 100 Do. Id Pref. Bonds 100 Do. do. deferred WO Do. 3d Pref. stock 100 Do. do. deferred 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock 100 Do. do. deferred too , Ot.lndiaPenin.gua.sp. i 20 Do. Gui. 5 per cen 20 Do. IN ew gun. sp. 0 took It. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. took Do. 4,1 per cent took Do sub Gt. IV. of Canada Sharer 206 Do. New .00 Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt ,00 )o. 5i p. e. do. '77-8 10 Indian Branch Limited ock Madras guar., sp. o. ock Do. 4/ p. o. Extensiof ock Do. 46 20 Do. Fifth Extension. oak tlelb.Corp. 6p. C. Bnde 50 Melb. & liobson's Bay. 10 Newßrunswiok t Quid:. Class A and B. N'.lll.C'da6 po Ist pi b& 'Get &Jude ock Do. Delhi... zi 10 Do. do at Do. PurtJaub •,7 A e tok De. Indus.Bt. F1o4) COLONIAL GOVER British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 3i, 1872.... Do. do. 1883.... p.c.Ja. iSzJul) 1877.81 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug Do. 6 p. o.Mar. a Sept Do. E p. o. Jan.&July. Do. 5 Inscribed stook , _ _ _ ape G.llope, 6 p 0,187; Do.Ap &Oct. 188( Do. 189( 00. Jan. & July. 1891.. 3eylon, Xoy.lF 6i, 6.p Jo. 1878, do. ilaurltius 6 p.cent.lB73 Do. IS7gl Do: natal Gov. 6 per cont.. 4.8.G0v. 6 p.c.Ja.stJuly v.S. W. Gov. 5 p D.,160 , Do. 5 p. c.,18t1 to limit Do. d0.,1868 Scupwd, new Zealand 6 p cent nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. o sterling:, 1875. 4ueensland Gcv. 6 p. a AUB Gov. 6 p.alt6B-' Do. 1.7 c c uovard 3... Vie. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.,lauly, Do. Jo 6 p.c. AndkOct,..l 100 (100 I 100 < 2 MEN 10u 100 100 100 100 100 Paid. Closing Price. 58 60 102 k (03k idas ip 5 5j 81 Di 75 80 98 100 8) 85 103 104 104 .233 21 2Z 89 91 70 72 61 d 4 66 68 56 68 53 54 47 60 3) 32 28 30 1031 104 i pr 6p pr .01 103 9 Oi 114 11 83 40 80 62 1 6 d 1024 1034 96 08 91 03 69 Cl S 6 82 S 4 10: 103 1024 1034 id lO3 10 1 1 95 97 'T SEC U. 99 101 97 89 97 89 88 90 86 89 103 105 IC 6 108 Ic6 108 109 111 102 104 119 112 195 107 106 100 106 108 [O4 106 98 101 98 100 95 97 94 96 ,05 107 99 101 101 105 1.02 - 3i 1)103} 103} ftll'lE-' 107 Ic6ll [O7 10? 1106 107 9il 51 100 IC4I BRITISH MINES. 2 . ambrian Consol. Gold Chiverton - ;Lamm Amalgamated )evon G. Cons. (Taoist - Drakewalls....... - rast Bassett (Illogan) - Past Caradon , ;ast Carn 8rea........ - East Grenville . - East Lovell ....... - W'l Russel (Avis tk.' . 4am.&St.Atioyn(Gwen 4 Great Laxey, - Brent South Tolgus.... - 4. Wheal Vor alelston - ;renville.. clerod's-Foot .lingston Downs Vfargaret (tiny Lelani - ,iarke Vali( y.. 4 •Ivndv Iron Ore (Lim Nang - i1e5........ - \ ew Sevin orth Downs..., - North Roskear.. Basset (1 - 'orth Wheal Crof ty . - Prosper .•rovidenee(Uny Lelni. - )outhCaradon(St.Cleer ?.Wheal Fran. (1110 , ;, - a:. - stray Park - fin Croit - rVest Basset (Mogan), - V Cf radon (Liskeard - West Chiverton - West Set= ••••• - ,Vhev I Basset (Mogan - Wheal Buller(ltedrutli, - Wheal Ludeott - Mary Ann (Men - Wheal Seton - Wheal Treiawney (Lis - Wheal Union 2.1.0. .)u 3.4.0 2.7.0. 5.13., 7 8. • 0.13 4.184 1.3 0 , 214 3 294 3.1, .0 2.8 0 7.1... lo 8.7 14 14.15. t 30.17. f iii 1 5 1 i 3.5. r. 8 58i, 66 i 6 32 33 580 600 18) 2 If 33i PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties, Ext. No. 1, 1(6 7 i t Ditto, No.' , 106 Great Western, 5 per cent. rd. pref., 104 Lancashire and Yorkshire, 6 per cent. stock, Ditto, 4i per cent., Blackburn pur., 99 / FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco kil.n.) gua. 7 per cent., 141 Dutch Ithenish, 216 Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidiu), 10/ San Paulo (lim.),lgua. 7 per cent., Ditto (all), 18/ South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, (~.(31 West Flanders, 5i per cent. pl., 9/ BANKS. Alliance !lim.), 851 41 Ditto, new, 34 3/ Ditto, issued at 20 pm., of which 10 is pd ,183 Anglo Austrian, 6/ E Australasia, 681 Bank of British Columbia, 171 Bank of London. Ditto, new, 21 Brazilian and Portuguese, lim.. 101 British and Californian, lim., 3* British North American. 80 493 Chartered Bank of India, Australia. and China, 34} Chartered tier. of India. London, and China, 621 Consolidated Bank, lim., 11} 3 European Bank, lim., 135 I Hindustan, china, and Japan (lim.), Ditto, new, issued at 2 pm., 213 Ditto, issued at 6 pm., 8 , London Bank of Mexico and S. America, lim., 71 London and County, 81 2 London, Hambur g, Cont. Exchange, lim.,r_lll Ditto, new, 37i London and 1% estminster, tBl National of Liverpool, limited, 19 National Bank, Ditto, new, 811 1' Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi, lint., 1 1 :1 Union of Australia,:s4i 4 MISCELLANEOUS. City Offices, lim., 4/3 Contract corporation, lim., 2 Credit Fonder and Mobititr of England, Ditto (£2), 51 East India Irrigation and Canal, 6 Ebbw Vale, 4 Egyptian Corn, and Trading, lim., 51 Electric Telegraph, 111 Financial Corporation, / Gen. Credit and Finance of London, Um, Hudson's Bay, 161 Humber Iron Woks, 4 2/ Imperial Mercantile Credit Assn., lim., 8313 International Financial Society, Um., 73 3 Joint Stock Discount:llm.. 93 £ London Financial Association lira., 243 1 Ditto, new, 233 London General Omnibus Company, 3} London Provincial Marine, 3 Milwall Iron Works 43 National Discount Company, lim., 161 Oriental Financial, lira., 6 Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 77i_S south Awitralion Land, 31 HIE SUN, LONDON, _MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1864. SPIRIT OF JOURNALS. THE "EXAMINER" ON THE lONIAN ISLANDS TINDER GREECE.—If the condition of the new kingdom of Greece is less promising than pro-Hel lenic enthusiasts could desire, it is, upon the whole, perhaps as satisfactory as sober-minded men should expect it to be. The position was a difficult, almost a desperate one. A country torn by civil factions and military rebellion, barely solvent in its finances, and so devo'd of men entitled to confidence, that, having expelled one foreign King, it was obliged, after vainly touting throughout the Courts of Europe, to intrust its destinies to a Royal schoolboy and his Danish tutor, may be congratulated on having for a year maintained itself without losing ground. If G reece h as not d one much towards gaining the respect of Europe, she has done nothing to forbid her friends from hoping for her future, and is, all things considered, in a more favourable position than during the close of King Otho's rule or the interregnum of anarchy which preceded the advent of King George. To Greece proper, then, this is so much gained; already, however, the lonians ask themselves whether they have not paid more for their share in the new order of things than it is worth, and whether they have gained or lost in influence, dignity, and power by their exchange of nominal dependence for national existence. It is difficult to pay too dearly for liberty, but the name of liberty may be bought at too high a price. That the position of the lonian Republic under British protection was in some respects an artificial and unnatural one cannot be disputed, The Protec torate was a sham, the Constitution ' vas a sh am , there was a sham Senate and a sham Assembly, there were sham statesmen and sham patriots. But these were all admitted shams, and deceived no one. The Lord High Commissioner per formed his conjuring tricks openly, and combining in his own person the authority of Sovereign, Senate, and Assembly, allowed the people to amuse themselves with playing at representative instill'. tions. It pleased them and did not hurt him, The material effect of British rule was, however, unmis. takeably beneficial. In no country in Europe was life and property more secure; in no country were the laws more Just or more impartially adminis tered; in none of our colonies was local taxation as moderate or imperial expenditure proportion. ately so high. The lonian flag, though it covered many doubtful transactions and bore a more than doubtful name, was as safe from insult or injury as oar own. The religion, the language, the habits, and oven the prejudices of the people were piously respected by us. Once a year the, Queen's representative bowed low before the embalmed mummy of lonia's patron saint, and Protestant gunners fired a Royal salute in honour of the most ludicrous of Greek superstitions. It was but five years ago since one of England's greatest states men went to Corfu, apparently for no other reason than to kiss the hand and receive the benedic tion of the Greek Archbishop. But though the mass of the people were happy, prosperous, and content under a rule which, in comparison with that of their succeesire Venetian, Russian, and French masters, was the wildest liberty, there was a large class of political agitators, while there was only a limited number of places wherewith to silence them, The Church, too, trader Russian influence, was inimical to 13/ itish dominion, and encouraged the spirit of opposition, which increased in exact proportion to the concession made; and when at length all was conceded, even to a liberty of speech which in England would have been called treason or indecency, and a licence of the press which New York might have envied before the days of Presi. dent Lincoln, even when, in order to increase the local revenue, we allowed the food and necessaries of the protecting garrison to be taxed for the bene fit of the lonians, when, in short, we had granted all that could be given consistently with the exist. ence of a protectorate, then we were requested to withdraw, and to give lonia to the lonians. This demand no Lord High Commissioner could ven ture to submit to the Queen until when, on the fall of King Otho, something was wanted to make the Hellenic throne acceptable to a new Sovereign, we wisely concluded that this was a good opportu nity to get rid of an ungrateful duty in a graceful manner, and to the surprise of the lonians they found their prayer granted. The Ai chbishop celebrated a Te Deum, the Assembly was enthusiastic in its thanks, San Spiridione paraded the streets, the people shouted Zito and waved the Greek flag, but there was a feeling of uneasiness in all classes. The Greek is not truthful, and untruthful men are ever suspicious; he was alarmed at our readiness to con clude the bargain ; he had misgivings as to our motives; and when it was announced that the de molition of some of the fortifications would be a condition of the cession of the islands, the men who in their speeches had declared that life and pro petty were too small a price wherewith to purchase independence exclaimed loudly against annexation with Greece at the expense of a few batteries. THE "LONDON REVIEW" ON THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN.—Rather more than twelve years ago, some benevolent ladies and gentlemen cpened an asylum for the sick children of the poor in one of the large old mansious in Great Ormond street, Queen-square, W.C. At first (though her Majesty kindly became the patroness of the institu tion), the funds in the hands of the committee were small, and only 18 beds could be made up. The ap. plicants, however, were equally few for some time, the poor requirieg to be accustomed to the idea, or perhaps to be made acquainted with the fact that such a place had been opened for their espe cial benefit. After awhile the applicants became so numerous that it was found necessary to refuse cases for sheer want of room. The utmost number of in-patients which can be received is 62; and, when it is borne in mind that more than 25,000 children under 10 years of cge die in London every year, and that owing to the imperfect knowledge of children's diseases to which medical men confess, this mortality scarcely diminishes with the great spread of sanitary precautions, it wilt be understood that 62 beds go but a little way towards the alleviation of the particular form of suffering with which this institution deals. A larger building is required; and indeed it is clear that no one building can be sufficient to answer the wants in this respect of so vast a metropolis. Every poor neighbourhood should have its Sick Children's Hospital ; and the rich neighbourhoods should look to it that they be supplied. It is surprising how much more might be done than is done, even in this charitable country, for the relief of the needy and suffering. We are not wanting in the best inten tions, but we are inclined, all of us, to be appalled and paralyzed sometimes at the enormous magnitude of the evils with which we are called upon to con tend. This is the great difficulty in the way of all philanthropic effort. It is not indifference to human affliction which so often stays the hand of the wealthy; it is rather the stupor of despair at mea suring the vastness of the work to be accomplished, and observing the small results of individual efforts at amelioration, however generously conceived or energetically carried out. This is especially the case in London. In comparatively small towns, the enemy does not seem beyond the power of grappling with. Here,on the other hand,the incubusof poverty and disease appears to acquire the size, weight, and fatal immobility of a nightmare; and too many of us cease even to struggle. This is a form of resig nation, however, which is the very contrary of a virtue; and the good achieved by such establish. meats as the asylum in Great Ormond-street should rouse U 3 to the more courageous views. Daring the time of its existence, the Hospital for Sick Children has received 4,250 patients, and has extended relief to 100,105 out-patients. In 1863 alone, the inpatients ea ere 573, and the out-pa tiens 11,224—while beyond these numbers lie those who would have been most cheerfuliy admitted, or otherwise attended to, had the funds allowed, but to whom the managers were compelled to give a reluctant negative. The hospital is open to the inspection of visitors every :day between the hours of twelve and four o'clock, and a glance at its ar. rangements will show the careful kindness with which it is managed. Considering that the house is in the thick of town, the situation is remarkably airy. Within a few doors, lies the long, wide, old fashioned Queen-square, with trees an d grass and quiet, freshening up the somewhat dingy houses of the heavy Dutch period, and acting as a reservoir of air to the surrounding streets. At the back of the hospital extends a spacious garden, very serviceable for such of the children as have euffia cientlyarecovered to run about. Upstairs is the sick room, broad and lofy, with panelled walls and fold ing doors. here are the sixty. two little beds with the sixty-two little sufferere—each bed provided with a horizontal tray attached to the 'nedetead, and so arranged that it will h o ld conven i en tly w h a t ever it may be necessary to put on it, and can be moved to and fro at pleasure. The supply of books and playthings is ample. Here you may EBO one little thing reading the Bible ; there, another conning some pictured storybook; a third, too young to read, gazicg at a number of coloured pictures on indestructible material; a fourth, p'.aying with the most gorgeous and fascinating toys. The toys, in truth, may well be of the best, for they come from the Queen, who, together with the young Princes and Princesses, has taken great interest in the hospital, and sent it many presents. Another room is devoted to the U3O of convalescents, and there are also separate homes for the convalescent both at Mitcham and Brighton. But the hospital itself does not merely receive sick children ; it has a room on the ground floor which is used as a nursery for healthy infants the advantages of which may be had by mothers of the working classes for two pence a day. The medical attendance seem to be unexceptionable; religious knowledge is imparted Businegf. done. by a clergyman who regularly visits the hospital ; and many benevolent ladies go there from time to time, carrying with them the comfort and bright ness which only women can bring into the chamber of sickness and of weary trouble. This is the in stitution which Mr Dickens—always alive to any shape of human need ur act of kindness, and espe cially so where children are concerned—described so touchingly in the December number of " Oar Mutual Friend." The service of so powerful a pen shola be worth thousands to the hospital ; but we cannot refrain at this season of the year from adding our'own voice to those which have preceded us in calling attention to this excellent charity and its need of funds. In our rejoicings this Christmas, let us think of the sick children and their home in Great Ormond-street, and, so thinking,we shall npt be slow to act. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON TOBACCO:' AND ITS ENEMIES,—Among the many advantages arising from a judicious use of tobacco may be reckoned the increase of benevolence amongst its devotees. The world always looks pleasanter through a cloud of smoke. All harsh and irri tating things become mellowed and softened to the mind which regards them under the hallowing influences of a cigar. No genuine smoker should, therefore, feel anything but amusement at the petulant attacks of the profane vulgar —he should regard even the Dean of Carlisle with Chris tian, or at least Nicotian, toleration. It he of course, wrong for a man to seek to deprive others of a pleasure because he does not enjoy it himself; but we must always make allowance for the irritability natural to persons suffering from any se rious deprivation. So long, therefore, as the anti-tobacco nists confine themselves to quiet lamentations over the wickedness of smokers, we should simply avoid their company —if they preach at us, we should seek refuge in sleep—if they send us pamphlets, we should convert the pamphlets into pipe-lights--the very strongest weapon we should wish to use against all fair means of propagating their cheerful creed should be a hearty laugh. But wo must add that, when they endeavour to extort 40s. from us, e should undoubtedly summon them before a police court. It is not often that the operations of those earnest men who have become the missionaries of the anti-tobacco movement crop up at the surface—and it is desirable that, when they eo, they should receive the fullest publicity. It is probably unknown to many of our readers that there has existed since 1853 a" Bi itish Anti-Tobacco Society," whose list of vice. presidents include the name of our old friend the Dean of Car e lisle. This society has taken upon itself to issue a placard, which begins by announcing " smokers are now exceedingly insolent ;" and states that, to arrest this" insufferable nuis ance in railway stations and carriages, they will offer re wards varying from 10s to £2 to any one who will secure the conviction of an offender on the Richmond line. A Mr Innes, apparently in blissful ignorance of the society and its placards, was smoking the pipe of peace at the end of the Barnes platform, whilst waiting for a train, He was ad dressed by a man calling himself an agent of the Anti-To bacco Society, to whom he at once gave his name, He also wrote a letter to the society, explaining that he was annoy ing no one by smoking, and that he left off when requested. The secretary—stated to be an unsuccessful provincial tailor, who has found a more congenial employment "in prosecuting a crusade against tobacco"—replied to the effect that:,the case would be proceeded with unless Mr lanes would pay the fine of 40s, to avoid the costs and ex posure. This fine, as was explained afterwards, was to be paid over to the porters and informers. Mr Innes summoned the secretary fur a demand for money accompanied by me nace, and the case failed on the grounds that it had not been demanded, but euggested, that the money should be pai 1, and that the menaces had not been such as to put Mr Innes in personal fear. The decision is doubtless correct, and the society have done nothing for which they or their secretary can be legally punished. The punishment appro. priate to most of their errors is that of being universally ridi culous, though this is one which use has by this time con verted into an enjoyment for them. Their present pro ceedings deserve ridicule, flavoured with a stronger feeling. We hope that they will refrain in future from conduct which has such a strong, though delusive, resemblance to extorting money. The code of railway morality iu regard to smoking has become pretty well established. It of course condemns smoking in all cases where it is likely to produce annoyance to one's fel ow - travellers. In such cases, however, smoking ought to be suppresod by the Com pany's officers. It is bad enough that a society of volun teer zealots should rush in to stimulate official zeal, that it should convert the harmless porter into a spy, and poison the confidence which exists between judicious travellers and an obliging guard. But it is quite intolerable that any society, however pure its motives, should proceed to levy fines upon the accused, and distribute them according to its will and pleasure. If a man were to accuse another of a crime punishable by fine, and then say that to save ex posure he would take the fine himself, we should know what to call him, The " British Anti-Tobacco Society" of course does not take the fine itself, but, according to its secretary, it distributes the money to its informers. The spy gets his forty shillings, and you save the exposure, although the bargain is not transacted with him directly, but with an immaculate society of almost super human virtue. The case will, to the society, be a warn ing to avoid such inadvertence for the future; to others, it will be a now illustration of the old truth that the blunders . of saints have often a superficial likeness to the deliberate tricks of the worldly. The special manifesta tion of the society's energy will, of course, soon come to an end. A few unfortunate smelters will be victimised. The understanding between officials and passengers will for a time be clouded. Things will then shako down into a new condition of equilibrium. It will be tacitly taken for granted that the guard's eye is to be endowed with only a certain fixed amount of penetrative power. The tariff will be readjusted, and the battle of the pipes will be succeeded by a general pacification. We have no fears that a stand ing army of spies will be organised on English railways by our crusaders against tobacco, or that it will be kept in working order for any length of time. Smoking in railroad carriages, like bribery at elections, suits too many interests not to preserve a tolerably tough vitality. But tho society, not content with suppressing the symptoms, means to at tack the very root of the disease, Our reformers aim at far greater things than stopping this particular loophole. They intend to revolutionise the state of public opinion. They mean to stigmatise this awful vice, till it dies out branded by their contempt. The day is to come when it will be a proud thing for a man to say, " I was one of the original members of the Anti-Tobacco Society," when the Chan cellor of the Exchequer will have to look about for another source of revenue than tobacco duties, and when the few surviving smokers who have escaped from a pre mature grave will be pointed at like the last wearers of Hessian boots, pigtails, or full - bottomed wigs. %Ve con fess that we were ignorant of these lofty aspirations till our attention was called to the nature of the society by the judicious proceedings above described. We then discovered that it was represented by a special organ, known as the Anti-Tobacco Journal, which has already reached it s seventh volume without, so far as we know, materially affecting the state of public opinion. The contents of this charming periodical are designed to chill the smoker's blood. The only number which we Lava dared to read opens with a battery of sixty o b jections against tobacco. ‘ r of b Aegimnse "is a m a i n upholder of slavery in the America," Thi s is a trifle, comparatively speaking. Tobacco harms th e gums and teeth, and the g because they arc f ew " — a sentiment which, Un i r n i o d te b e d "Tobacco," csStatesccease from its semi-scriptural twang, is apparently meant as an addition to Solomon's proverbs, " Tobacco is at variance" —it is not said why—" with the dictates which Christianity inspires in the soul." "Tobacco robs the pulpit by circum scribing the qualifications of smoking ministers"—a remark the more terrible from its obscurity, "Tobacco-smoking is sottish, snuffing is snobbish, and chewing is hoggish." This last has perhaps the most epigrammatic point, but there are some fifty equally weighty aphorisms, the perusal of which will probably reduce the smoker's spirits to a fit state to encounter the more deliberate arguments of the journal. The solid part of this periodical refers to subjects whose nature may be inferred from such titles as " A Stubborn Minister Humbled,' , and " Three Hundred and Sixty-five Interviews with S mo k ers, Chewers, and Snuff takers." The good taste and religious feeling with which they are written may be exemplified by the triumphant question put to the stubborn minister :—'.Are faith, prayer, and the Spirit and the word of God become so sterile that, being cast aside, tobacco must supply their place ?" The minister is, of course, brought down by this latter irre verent remark, and consents to refrain from smoking himself to death. Sneerers in real life seem to be tougher. The gentleman who describes the " three hundred and sixty-five interviews" complains that the boys, instead of giving a ra tional answer to his remarks, generally " amused themselves with insulting gibes." We don't wonder at it. The only consolation he received was from a man at a public-house, whose face " had the appearance of laceration from human nails, asked for a journal, but remonstrance was useless," If the remonstrance, as the grammar would imply, wa s directed against an unnatural appetite for the collection of trash called a journal, wo regret that his friends should have scrupled to use the degree of constraint necessary, Tarn "SPECTATOR" ON EMPEROR LAY'S BLUE -BOOK, —Mr Horatio Lay, the gentleman who recently made a clutch at the Imperial throne of China, and missed it by a hairsbreadth,has published a pamphlet to explain the failure of his attempt, It is in the form of a letter to Earl Russell, and though entirely supet fluent., except as a despatch to the Foreign Office, who gave him his secret instructions and may be irritated at his want of success, is most valuable po litical resoling. Mr Lay seems to have thought it advisable to defend himself from the charge of mismanagement before the public also, but he entirely mistakes his position in their eyes. Nobody out of the Foreign Office accuses him of any thing except of being one of the ablest, most honourable,and most determined of those Anglo-Asiatics who have from time to time endeavour to impose on this country dominion she does not want, responsibilities she would rather avoid, and power she is unable to exercise without neglecting more urgent and binding claims. It is the Government which re quires defence for having attempted to acquire the sove reignty of China without consulting Parliament or inform ing the nation, and Mr Lay will hardly affirm that he has cleared the Foreign Office of the charge. On the contrary, his private bluebook will, we believe, convince every man who reads it that the view maintained in this journal was correct from beginning to end; that Mr Lay formed in 1863 a deliberate and wellnoneeived plan for obtaining thee guidance and control" of the Chinese Government; for " beginning the work there," as ho says in one place, "which we have commenced in India ;" for becoming, as he says in another place, "middleman between the Govern , meat of China and all foreign Powers ;" that this plan was laid before Lord Palmerston, and in principle cor dially approved ; that it was accepted, promoted, and acted on by that very inept person Sir Frederick Bruce, and that C only tailed because the British Minister at Pekin was Mr Lay's inferior in firmness, keenness, and know ledge of tha Chinese. It is pleasant of course to read such a confirmation of our statements, but from the first among those who know Asia there never was any doubt of the truth, any suspicion or hope that Mr Lay was acting independently. Anglo• Asiatics, who dare all things else, have one ever present fear. They will break up a dynasty to recover a debt of a shilling, annex an empire to punish the refusal of a ceremonial bow, pulverise the civilisation of mil. lions rather than leave a salt lake unexplored, assume any Asiatic government, risk the hostility of any Asiatic race, accept the command of any Asiatic army, bat neither the hope of power, nor the crave for emolument, nor the thirst for reputa tion, nor even their own fanaticism for the spread of civilisation, will them to act for an hour in oppo• sition to the policy of their own country, They will rather see a rich colony conquered by them• selves given away, as Sir S. RAihs did, because a public remonstrance would have injured English prestige : fling up a vizierat, as Ouseley did, because the King asked him to impede a British design; or declare, as Rajah Brooke did,that sovereignty meant nothing to him if he was to lose his rights as a British citizen. Mr. Lay did even more than these men. After years of labour and effort, with the prize just within his grasp, with his dream almost visibly fulfilled, with an ambition such as stirs conquerors burning in his veins, he offered, rather than England should forfeit the glorious prize, to give up• the prospect of exercising impe rial power, and abandon the mayoralty of the Pekin Palace to Captain Osborn, by making him instead of himself im mediate agent of the Emperor. It was not very probable that such a man would be found acting in Asia indepen dently of his own Government, but it is as well that Eng land should know how thoroughly that Govetnment approved his scheme. If anybody, blinded by Mr Layard's serene chatter about Chinese employds, and British irre sponsibility for Englishmen in the service of the Govern ment of Pekin; and the right of all governments to choose their own servants, thinks that Mr Lay was simply a pri vate adventurer, he had better read this pamphlet. Those who etudy it will find thnt Mr T.ny pnrAnintOrilY refused to move one step without the consent of the British Govern ment, that Lord Palmerston advised, after hearing his plans, the issue of the Order in Council allowing British officers to take service in China, that Earl Russell upon Mr Bruce's representations agreed to waive many forms and assume much responsi bility rather than delay the despatch of the fleet, that the British Minister pressed the plan on Prince Kling, and that finally every word of the astounding arrangement between Prince Kung and Mr Lay, under which Mr Lay was in vested with power to make any agreement which he thought for the advantage of China, and under which, as ho says, he, working with but not under the Regent. began to " organise" a great " service," was submitted to Sir F. Bruce and approved by him I They will see that the same Minister actually told the American Envoy that his plan of action was to "thrust the Chinese on Lay," and leave him to manage, i, e., govern, them in the interest of Europe. They will find, moreover, that the scheme under which Mr Lay was to have been as much mas ter of the Chinese—it is his own simile—as a school master is of his children, was within a hairsbreadth of ia g carried out, and would have been car ried out but that Sir F. Bruce at the eleventh hour knocked out the key-stone, as Mr Lay avers from simple fear of trouble, but as we think from that and a slow perception that the plan involved turning China into another India, The Chinese at their wits' end to resist the Tao pings, had in 1863 begun to create an Anglo-Chinese force which, as Mr Lay knew, would release them from all ap prehension. He demanded, therefore, that this :orce should be responsible only to the Emperor, upon whom the Minister or himself could always act with effect. Sir F. Bruce agreed, remarking shrewdly that "so long as the local governors can obtain on their own terms foreign officers and steamers officered by foreigners, sufficient to repel the insurgents, it is idle to expect that the Government at Pekin will undertake the otgnisation of an Imperial force either on land or on the sea." The Chinese, however, persisted in placing Major Gordon under the local Foutaie, Sir F Bruce vacillated and gave way, Nankin was captured,. and "almost the first words uttered to Mr Lay at the Foreign Board were these The state of matters here is such and such. Our policy, we don't mind telling you, :,is this :—ln the morning we are weak and yield to all demands, but by the evening we recover our• strength, and then we ignore everything,' with a sig. uificant nod•" After a scene reported by Captain Osborn in a letter of inimitable :picturesqueness, in which the Chinese Foreign Board constantly repudiated the words they lead uttered five minutes before, and lied with a pre sence of mind wnich Captain Osborn can hardly help ad miring, the agreement was only repudiated on the ground of a change of policy, really because the Mandarins once more felt themselves strong. Mr Lay made one more de spairing effort. With a nobleness only possible to his class, he offered to give up every word in the agreement which referred to [himself, to make Captain Osborn all in all if only the Government would keep faith—but the Mandarins refused, ,and under a profusion' of assurances of friondahip ho quitted Pchiu, Niue nays afterwards he, the man who apart altogether from this affair had built up the customs revenue of China, was "curtly dismissed," and the only imperial project framed in this generation came silently to an end. We cannot blame Prince Kung. Reading this pamphlet by ;.he light of all previous despatches, we have no more doubt that Mr Lay intended to be Mayor of the Palace in China than we doubt that his motive was to benefit that country and to aggrandize his own, We question if he would have borne much control from the Regent himself, any more than from the provincials whom he so entirely despised. Indeed he says so himself in almost so many words :—" The Chinese Government was too rotten a reed to lean upon, and the foundations of the structure I was endeavouring to build up had to be artificially created. My position was that of a foreigner engaged,by the Chinese Government to perform certain work for them, not under them. I need scarcely observe in passing that the notion of a gentleman acting under an Asiatic barbarian is preposterous. I was not a Chinese official, but a foreign adviser without rank, but with a high and influential position, because trusted in and honoured." He is quite right, as every Anglo-Asiatic knows, but then that is not the attitude a native potentate once relieved from the fear of destruction can be expected to tolerate. Mr Lay would of all mankind probably make the best use of the throne of China, but he can scarcely expect a Chinese Regent to help to seat him on it. The instant the consequences of the agreement were per ceived it was certain that Prince Kung would evade it, and we do not know that a European Court would have been much more straightforward. The real blame, ,es it seems to us, rests with our own Govern must and its agents, who first supported a scheme involv ing a frightful addition to our responsibilities without con• suiting Parliament, then allowed Mr Layard to say that Britain was not responsible, then fell back from Mr Lay in the very hour of trial, and finally compelled him to explain why he bungled the scheme with which they have all along professed to have nothing to do. Mr Lay offered them empire, and they smiled, then frowned, and then required him to explain the catastrophe their own frown had produced. Three words to Mr Lay, "It won't do," wculd have stopped the scheme in the beginning, as many to Sir F. Bruce, " Lay must succeed," would have made it success ful; but neither were uttered, the Ministry being willing to incur the responsibility of increasing her Majesty's subjects to six hundred' millions, yet reluctant to take the slightest step towards securing the result they all the while desire& We have not said anything upon the relations be tween Pekin and London, which Mr Lay describes with a lucidity we cannot think discreet, but we may venture on one disagreeable prophecy, So puffed up is the Chinese Government with its victories over the rebels, that early in 1863 we were on the eve of a fourth war with China, the French Minister having almost declared hostilities, and Sir F. Bruce "not being able to see" how he could avoid sup porting him. The inflation has been increased by Mr Lay's departure, and unless all our history in Asia is a myth, within three years our troops will be once more on their road to Pekin. The profits on " La Vie de Jesus" in two years amounted to nearly £lB,OOO. THE SHEFFIELD INUNDATION.—The directors of the Sheffield Waterworks Company having in strutted Messrs. Simpson, Hawkesley, Bateman, Fowler, and Harrison, engineers, to examine their works, these gentlemen have embodied the result of their examinations in an elaborate report. They dissent from the opinion of Mr Rawlinson and Mr Beardmore as to the causes which led to the rupture of the embankment. They say there was no fracture of the pipes, and that the embankment was composed of materials which would not have slipped if the base on which it rested had been immovable. They think, therefore, that " we must look for causes other than sup posed impezfactions in the quality of the materials or work manship for the failure of the reservoir s They then say After a full consideration of am collate' al circum stances, we are unanimously of opinion that the accident was occasioned by a landslip, whal occurred in the ground immediately on the east side of the embankment, and which extended beneath a portion of its outer slope, involving in its consequences the min of that portion of the bank, and producing the catastrophe which followed." LATE THEATRICAL NEWS.—Mdlle. Beatrice, 'she talented and pleasing French actress, is engagrA at the Lyceum for three consecutive years,. Shortly after Christmas " The Lady of Lyons" will be represented, with Mdllle. Beatrice as Pauline, and Mr Pechter as Claude Melnotte. We need hardly say that the scenery, dresses, and paraphernalia will be produced with the Lessee's usual Witt/ liberality and good taste.—Era, 59 45 i 86 Business dun. MARKEIS—This Day. CURRENCY PER 'ALPER/AL MEASURIL Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 36s to 408 Ditto, 1861 Ditto, white, 1863 4os 449 Ditto, 1864 Norfolk and Lincoln, red, 1864 Ditto, 1863 Talavera, 1864_... 44s 509 Rye-- Barley—Grinding 22s 259 Malting, new, 3os 358 Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk 6os 83s Brown Kingstown and Ware 6os 63s Chevalier Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding l9s 22s Potato 22s 26s Youghal and Cork, black lB9 228 Cork, white Scotch, Feeding 2os 23s Beans—Tick 34s 37s Pigeons, •Grey. • 33s 36s Maple White 36s 40s Boilers 36s 408 Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b Suffolk . ............ 28s 30s Stockton and Norfolk.. ..... 26s 28s American, per barre 1.............. 19s 25s Oats —" Peas-1 METROPOLITAN CATTLE. There was a moderate supply of foreign stock on sale in our market, to day, the trade for which ruled inactive, at late rates. The arrivals of beasts, fresh up from our own grazing districts, were very moderate as to number; but their quality was tolerably large for the time of year, and the quality of the stock was prime. Fresh boasts of good and prime quality were in steady request, at Thursday's cur rency —the top figure for beef being 5s Gd per 81bs. Stale bcaata, of which th.zo wets /stye' at. loft - over from Thurs day's market, including all inferior breeds, met a slow sale, at previous quotations. From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Nortamptonshire we received 350 shorthorn; &c; from other parts of Eng land, including Norfolk, 300 of various breeds; from Scot land, 102 Scots and crosses; and from Ireland, 70 oxen and heifers. The supply of sheep on sale was small. Good and prime downs, half-breds, 6tc., moved off steadily, at full prices; otherwise the malting trade ruled inactive, at last Monday's currency. The top quotation was Os per Blbs. Only Dutch calves were exhibited for sale, and they were disposed of at full prices. There were no pigs at marker. Our quotations are therefore nominal. Per Blbs. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. Orse. &inf. beasts 3 8 4 4 Secondquality do. 4 6 4 10 Prime large oxen 5 0 5 2 Prime Scots, &c. 5 4 5 Urse. & inf. sheep 4 2 1 8 Second quality do. 4 10 5 2 Lambs....( Suckling calves, 10s to 21s 20s to 26s each. Primecrs-wool d 0.5 4 5 8 Prue. S' thdown d 0.5 10 6 0 Large crse. calves 4 2 4 10 Prime small d 0... 5 0 5 4 Large h0g5...... 3 6 4 4 Small porkers..., 4 6 1 10 s Od to Os Od. ; and quarter-old store pigs TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts ... 1250 Cows Sheep .. 4,920 Calves 4 Pigs. The total imports of foreign stool into London, last week, amounted to 5,406 head. In the corresponding week in 1863, we received 3,521—in 1862, 2,440—in 1861, 2,332 —in 1860, 1,163—in 1859, 2,554—in 1353, 8,550. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LASI WEEK. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Antwerp 42 .. 125 22 .. Bremen .. :47 .. 29 •. .• Boulogne• •.,• • .. .. .. .. 218 Calais .. 96 Dordt. Dunkirk. Gibraltar Hamburg Harlingen Medeniblik -- • • .• Nieu. Diep •. Ostend '— 81 .. •• 47 • -. Rotterdam 176 Tonning Cadiz • FOREIGN SUPPLY. Bcasts .. Sheep Calves . ..... 4 Pigs — .. - •• -- .. 264 Total ....1,238 .. 3,042 .. .. 193 .. 933 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambe. Calves, Pigs. 1863 550 2,886 t 66 .. 19 1862 356 1,881 .. .. 203 .. 1861 407 .. 1,965 .. .. 10 .. 1860 1859 A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, Dec. 28, 1863, and this day, Monday, Dec. 26, 1864, Poi. 81b. to oink tho offal. Dec. 28, Coarse and inf er i or b eas t s .... 3 8 1863 to 4 0 Second quality do Prime large oxen .. 4 8 5 0 Prime Scots, &c... 5 0 5 2 Coarse and inferior sheep:.... 4 0 4 6 Second quality do. Prime coarse-woolled do 5 4 5 8 Prime Southdown do. Lambs Large coarse calves .. 4 0 4 8 Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers 4 2 4 6 Beasts Sheep and lambs Calves ...... 117 180 1 Pigs — SUPPLIES ON SALE, Dec 29, 1 862.—Beasts, 3,790 — sheep, 13 ,710—calves, 172—pigs, 270. Dec. 30, 1861.—Beasts,: 4,4oo— sheep,o--calves, 18,920 —calves, 132—pigs, 310. Dec. 26, 1864. 3 Bto 4 4 4 6 410 50 5 2 54 5 6 42 4 8 410 5 2 54 5 8 510 6 0 00 0 0 4 2 410 50 5 4 36 4 4 4 6 410 1,250 4,920 NEIVGATE AND LEADENHALL. The fresh arrivals of meat to these markets this morn ing were small. Sales in most descriptions, however, pro gressed slowly, at the following prices : Per 81b, by the carcase. stied t ided [nferior beef 30 3 4 Middling mutton 42 4 8 Middling do. .. 3 6 4 2 Prime d 0....... 4 10 5 2 Primo largo do. 4 4 4 8 Veal ......... 3 10 4 10 Do. small do. .. 410 5 2 Small pork ~ 4 8 5 0 Large pork .... 3 8 4 6 Lamb ....... . 0 0 0 0 Inferior mutton. 3 8 4 0 BOROUGH HOP. No business of importance has been transacted in hops to-day. The market presents quite a holiday appearance. Prices are unaltered. Last weeks imports amounted to 96 bales from Antwerp, 142 Boulogne, 140 Ostend, 5 Hamburg, 14 Rotterdam, 64 Bremen, and 250 bales from New York, New Mid and East Kent .. New Weald of Kent New Sussex Yearlings .. per cwt. 110 s to 200 s 105 s to 155 s 100 s to 140 s 100 s to 140 s BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. The fresh arrivals of potatoes are small, yet, owing to the holidays, the trade is very slow, at our quotations. Last week's import was 87 tons from Dieppe, 40 tons from Harlingen, and 445 tons from Havre. Yorkshire Regents 9os to 105 s per ton. Flukes Kent and Essex Regents Rooks Scotch Regents MARK LANE. The Corn Exchange is closed to-Jay by order of the Committee. In the country markets held on Saturday dry English wheats moved off steadily at full prices, but damp parcels were a dull inquiry on former terms. Barley, oats, beans, an peas were in slow request at about previous quotations, The flour trade was quiet at late rates, Advices from America state that the export demand for breadstuffs is much restricted, whilst on the Continent the amount of business doing in wheat for shipment to this country is very moderate, Oats, however, are freely dealt in for exportation. The arrivals of English grain up to our market last week were small. The imports from abroad amounted to 3,262 quarters of wheat, 8.462 barley, 64,330 oats, 3,700 rye, 47 beans, 124 peas, 545 tares, 6,712 linseed, 761 rapeseEd, 60 sundry seeds, 149 sacks and 4,791 barrels of flour. OPUlialkiG INTELLIGENCE. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1865. JAN UARY. 3 lanehester Northampton Croxton Park Durham Newmarket Craven Newmarket Ist Spring 1 Chester York Spring J 1: Epsom Summer (con.).. 1 Manche5ter............ Ascot .......... 13 Alexandra Park ........ 20 •• '2, Catterick Bridge Thirsk Epsom Spring Salibbury Bath Epsom Summer 3O E. Hampton .. 21 N ow ton Newcastle Worcester Summer JULY. Newmarket July 4 Nottingham Summer .. IS Carlisle Pontefract AUGUST. Huntingdon Reading Egham Oxford York August 22 Plymouth Lichfield ........... Devon and Exeter 29 Derby Summer Weymouth SEPTE Weymouth (continued), 1 Leicester Doncaster Brecon lB Our :MBER. Richmond .... Monmouth Manchester Autumn Newmarket Ist October, 26 'OBER Northallerton 5 I Newmarket Houghton.. 23 Newmarket Second Oct 9 Worcester Autumn .... 31 NOVEMBER. Worcester Autumn (continued) 1 Now ready, G. SHELTON'S Derby Guide, Is. G. R. Glenie, Sporting Library, Connaught-terracc, Hyde-park ; Sunday Times Office,lFleet-street ; and all agents. LOCKET'S Derby Analysis at a glance shows what the field for the Blue Riband will be selected from ; and con tains also selections for all the great three-year -old contests, selections for Manchester meeting, Waterloo Cup, Sco. Price one shilling; had from Sunday Times office, and all the usual agents, or from E. Locket, Box L 2, Manchester, and_G. R. Glenie, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. CIIRIiTMIS DISORDERLIES.—A large number of persona of both sexes were brought before Mr Tyrwhitt this morn ing charged with being drunk and disorderly. In all cases where the charge was only for being drunk and incapable tho defendants were discharged, but where disorderly con duct was proved small tines—as usual at Christmas —were imposed. One of the men charged with being drunk and incapable had under his arm his market basket with a goose in it. Amongst the persons who had indulged rather too free:y were several cabmen. One of them was seen by a constable dodgiug round his horse's head trying to put the nose bag on, but to no purpose, as, after spending nearly five minutes in his en deavours to do so, he fell. In nearly every instance the excuse was that yesterd-ay being Christmas-day an extra drop was taken, Charles Roberts, a pianoforte maker, was charged as fol-, lows :—Henry Wendt, a tailor, living at No. 3, Clepstone street, said that there was a party last night in the first floor of the house where ho resided, and after he (com plainant) had gone to bed about eleven o'clock, the defen dant was admitted into the house by one of the guests, the defendant having knocked at the door and being taken for one of the company. The defendant said he lodged iu the house, and should stop there, but at last was per. suaded to leave. He (complainant), who slept in the:par lours, and had Leen disturbed by defendant, then went to bed again, but only to be aroused again shortly after by the defendant, who again knoeked at the door and got ad mitted, and went upstairs, and refused to leave. Defendant was, however, got out of the house, and quiet restored, but not for any length of time, for he returned and knocked violently at the door, and continued to do so as if the house was on fire. The defendant was then given into custody. In answer to Mr Tyrwhitt, the complainant said the de fendant did not appear to be drank, but foolish. The defendant said he had been to a party, and could not persuade himself that he did not reside in the house. Mr Tyrwhitt fined the defendant 10s., or seven days. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE —This day. -4,- LONDON, Dec. 26.—Wind this day at noon—North- Easterly ; moderate breeze, tad fine weather, but rather cloudy and cold. FALMOUTH, Dec, 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Eagle, from Rio Grande. TROON, Dec. 21.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Portia, for Demerara. CLYDE, Dec. 24.—Wind W.S.W..Arrived—Alecope, from Demerara. QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 24.—Wind W.—Arrived—Amora, from Demerara. - - - FEBRUARY. Lincoln spring 21 I Nottingham Spring ..„ 261 MARCH. Derby Spring 2 Doncaster Spring Liverpool Spring Shrewsbury Spring 9 Chelmsford Spring A I'ItIL. WOOL. 4lThe trade for English wool since our last report has ruled firm, and although the transactions nave been far from numerous the tendency of prices has been in an upward direction. In colonial wool, since the close of tho public sales, very little has been done. Last week's import was 573 bales from Taganrog. Fleeces —South D own h oggets s d 2 0 Half-bred do Kent fleeces. 2 2 South Down ewes and wethers 1 11 Leicester do. Sorts—Clothing Combing ...... 1 8 a d 2 li 2 3 2 21 2 0 2 2 2 01 2 2 SEEDS. T urnfp,White,p.bus.2C s to 22s Swede —s —s Ar.ustard, Brown White, Tares, Spring...—. —8 —s New winter, bush 1 b lis Canary, per quarter —8 - Rye grass , . 240 28s Clover, Red , et. - -s s White ~. —s s Carraway 343 35s Coriander 215 256 Herapseed, per qr 42s 468 Linseed,Eng.sowing 61s 6SB Crushing 598 62s Baltic —9 —s Odessa -s -8 Linseed Cake, p ton —s —s English £lo Os £llss Foreign £9 lOs .£ll 55 Rape Cakes,p ton £5 lOs £6ss Rapeseed, new,pr qr 748 788 Foreign.lted —a White —a —l3 Trefoil ne'w —a -8 TALLOW. The tallow market is closed to-day. The last quotation frr new P.Y.C. on the spot was 41s ; for January to March, 41s; tor March, 425; for October to December delivery, 43s 3d per cwt. Particulars. 1850. 1881 1862. 1863. 1864. --- Stock this day.... 73.044 53,146 55,435 71.318 60.847 6083:2 to 51s01 to 4553 d to t 4os9d 30 41 8 0 d to Price of Y.C. —s Od 51s ed 45s Od 51s Od sOd Delivery lastweek 1.319 1,521 1,823 2,419 2,698 Ditto from June 1 53,358 81,716 47,558 1 4u,388 50,8.3 Arrivals last week • 207 2,914 809 3,676 1,171 Ditto from June 1 99,308 78.181 64,684 73 , 8 59 66,63 Prim 01 Town• •• • 016 Od 52s 9d 166 Ott 13r3 Od .434 9d9 Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. laustralla and Mauritius, via Southampton....... Jan. IS. via Marseilles' .. Jan. 12. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British padiet. Jan. 5. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Dcc. 0. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southatupton.Jan. 2. via Marseilles ...Dec. 27. Falkland Islands .... Gibraltar, via Southampt o n .. Dec. 27. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.. Jan. 2. a arseilles....Dec, India (Bombay), via Southampton . M . Dec. 27. 27. via Marseilles Dec. 21. Portuga1.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Dec. 27. via Marseilles Dec. 21. Newfoundland .. Jan. 2. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Dec 29. by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. Dec. 30. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .... Jan. IU. West Indies and Pacific . . ..Dec. 29. Bahamas (via N ew Y or k) Bermuda (ditto) Jan. 18. Cuba and Mexico Dec. 29. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS the Field.Marehal Come manding-in-Chief will hold a levee at one o'clock on Wednesday, January 4.—Army and Navy Gazette. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S INN-ROAD. A donation of £lO5 from Mr William Crawshay, of Caversham Park, Reading, and another of £25 from Mr E. Crane, of Broom House, Kidderminster, were received by the last weekly board of this charity. Two thousaud nine hundred and fifty-two patients received relief during last weet - , and seven hundred and ninety-six of these were new cases. THE LATE MARQUIS OF BRISTOL.—The friends of the late Marquis of Bristol in Bury St. Edmuuds are about to place a stained glass window to his memory in the parish church of St. Mary, in that town. The late marquis represented the borough for 38 years as Elsa Jermyn. The Figaro%Programme proposes that anyone whose name shall stand in a subscription list in that jourr nal as giving sfr. for the poor shall be considered to have fulfilled all the duties of politeness required on New Year's Day. and be relieved from the trouble of paying visits or sending cards. The amount will be handed over to the Bureaux of Public Assistance, The Gazette de France has received a "comma* !ideated" note contradicting a statement made by that jour nal to the effect that the Prefect of the Seine inte.nded to propose to the Emperor, in a secret report, the nomina tion of a new municipal commission composed of 100 persons, of whom 30 would be members, ex-officio, and the remaining 70 be appointed by Government. THE KING OF PRUSSIA AND HIS HOTEL BILL. --0 The German newspapers have got hold of a shabby transaction, in whichthe King of Prussia cuts a rather undignified figure, while the King of Bavaria seems bent on showing him up. The affair dates as far back as 1849, when his present Majesty, as Crown Prince, marched into Baden somewhatafter the late Schleswig-Holstein fashion. To carry out his operations against the Federal Grand Duchy, he had to cross the Rhine at the Bavarian village of Gemersheim, where he halted with his suite on the 17th and 18th of June, taxing to their utmost capabilities the `cellar and larder of a local Uasthof. Ho ran up a little bill of 200 thalers, which in the hurry of departure he forgot to discharge, and the worthy Boniface has been ever since seeking redress alternately at Munich and Berlin. This summer he accosted his debtor personally during his visit to Baden Baden, and was told to forward his account to the Chancellor of the Household. The latter functionary has had full time to take the royal order for payment, but in: November he forwarded to the innkeeper a documemt printed in all the Zeitungs along the Rhine, and signed Puckler," to the effict that as C rown Prince he was t h en engaged in federal execution at the cost either of the Diet or of Bavaria, to either of which paymasters the hotel bill for wine, Kitchwassen cigars, Ite., was referred. "The accounts of the Crown Prince have been long since closed" —equivalent to pleadingtriest7tate of limitations. It is said that her Majesty will open Parliament in person. In consequence of the heavy fail of snow in Sandringham, the Prince of Wales has had the Royal sledges, presented to the Queen by the Emperor of Russia, sent from Windsor to Sandringham. The Prince of Wales and Princess of Wales intend to keep the birth day of their infant• Prince at Sandringham, and their return to Frcgroore Lodge will be regulated according to the state of the weather. If the frost should not put a stop to hunting, the Prince will remain at Sandringham until the end of the month, otherwise his Royal Highness will go to Frogmore for the purpose of skating on Virginia Water. the ce, be [er ri ad for